Sentences with phrase «crisis in authority»

They suggest that in so far as the churches are concerned, there is a more fundamental issue that lies behind the crisis in authority.

It would appear that the crisis in authority we now face has been caused by the dissolution of a common standard of belief (what used to be called the rule of faith) and a common form of life (what used to be called «the way»).

The more profound issue signaled by the crisis in authority has to do with a decay in the communion of saints and a decline in the powers of soul enjoyed by those within that communion to whom authority is entrusted.

A crisis in authority suggests the possibility that our churches have lost the will and lack the men and women with those powers of soul required to articulate, promulgate, and defend a rule of faith and a way of life that is indeed common to Christians.

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Officials said Obama could act on that authority if Russian forces press into other areas of Ukraine, an escalation of the crisis in Crimea.

The challenge for Quantum Dawn 2's victims was not only spotting a problem, but communicating with rivals, exchanges and government authorities to conclude that markets were in the throes of a systemic crisis and needed to be shut down.

11 Congress granted this authority to the Federal Reserve in the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006, with an October 2011 effective date, but accelerated its implementation to October 2008 as part of the legislative response to the financial crisis.

The cases follow President Barack Obama's 2012 pledge to hold banks accountable for their role in the housing crisis after authorities faced criticism for little high - profile action.

«I don't think bitcoin is prevalent enough at the moment to be a systemic threat in the way we experienced during the financial crisis other threats; it needs watching carefully but I don't think we're there yet,» said Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, during a Thursday interview on BBC's Newsnight.

But the visit by Greenblatt, who is leading the daily effort within the White House to forge a US - led peace plan, comes at a time of crisis in relations between the Trump administration and the Palestinian Authority.

The theory is that the credit crisis in the United States might have been avoided if a central authority had seen the systemic danger posed by Wall Street's aggressive selling of securities backed by subprime loans and other complex financial products.

Uber is offering free rides for everyone going out of the Sydney central business district, where law enforcement authorities are in a standoff against a hostage - taking crisis, but not before Uber botched up its PR yet again.

Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

He describes in characteristically straightforward language Protestantism's crisis of authority and its need for real shepherds: «The Church must have not only normative sources written down on paper but also authoritative officeholders ordained to teach the whole Church.»

Since this problem of authority among men is always ultimately theological the crisis in pastoral authority is symptomatic of the crisis in civilization, though it is not as some apologists for the Church seem to believe the cause of the latter crisis.

The latter always remains a highly personal matter; the minister is fitted to exercise this authority by the personal crises through which God leads him It is conferred upon him only in the inner chamber where ordinary thanksgivings, intercessions, confessions and petitions are daily made and where the extraordinary humblings or clarifications take place.

The fact is that, though the churches share what I will call a common tradition about authority, that tradition is in the midst of a severe crisis.

However, early in a crisis, children need to be protected, but should remain in their home countries until authorities can confirm the locations of their family members and explore adoption possibilities within their own communities and cultures.

The crowd seems aware of some sort of impending crisis; the disciples are bewildered but following along; the authorities are prepared to strike at any moment; and in the midst of it all is a solitary, determined, and no doubt sorrowful, figure determined to press through to the end.

If, like her, they reached maturity before the crisis over Church authority that began with the birth controlcontroversy, they often have a kind of bred - in - the - bones Catholicism... Patty Crowley and her peers never doubted that the Church had something to say, but after 1968 they began to wonder whether it was interested in listening.»

Negative theology is a sign of a crisis in theological authority.

Parousia or presence in a church during a time of crisis gave that apostle social visibility and political authority.

The response of some to the current sexual crisis in the Catholic Church is to say that paternal understandings of authority need to be replaced with functional understandings.

Say you confess to a serious crime — the priests may not divulge anything but the phone company or the techs responsible for the server might have a crisis of conscience and report you in which case authorities could get a warrant, copy your confession, and prosecute you.

With Jesus as in Judaism, obedience is bound up with the crisis of decision in which man stands; obedience is actual only in the moment of action, and if one wishes to call obedience an intention, he must at the same time hold fast the fact that this obedience presupposes the authority of God.

The controversial «Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace» makes the international financial crisis, still unfolding around us in slow motion, the occasion for a renewed call for a «global political authority.»

In the end the crisis was simply too big for the Irish ecclesial authorities and they needed to be strengthened by St Peter's successor.

Churches should prepare their plans in conjunction with local disaster management authorities, and encourage willing members to get Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and other emergency training, so they will have the necessary credentials to help others in a crisis area.

The Church lives the full life of Christ in mind as well as in heart, and possesses the full and certain truth of Christ, and the authority to assert and to define it when a crisis arises:

In the summer of 2009, we conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,500 Russian citizens, and found that respondents who were directly affected by the financial crisis were more likely to respond negatively to questions concerning popular support for the political leadership of the country, the efficacy of the political authorities, and the actual practice of democracy in Russia (Chaisty and Whitefield, 2012In the summer of 2009, we conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,500 Russian citizens, and found that respondents who were directly affected by the financial crisis were more likely to respond negatively to questions concerning popular support for the political leadership of the country, the efficacy of the political authorities, and the actual practice of democracy in Russia (Chaisty and Whitefield, 2012in Russia (Chaisty and Whitefield, 2012).

If Putin fails to deliver in Ukraine, the possibility of a challenge to his authority from a more radical nationalist agenda is likely to be greater than it was before the start of the crisis.

Also at noon, the state Senate IDC, with advocates and impacted tenants, will release a bombshell report, «The New Flint,» comparing the lead crisis facing residents of the New York City Housing Authority with the lead crisis that captivated a nation in Flint, Michigan, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

In particular, the 2012 assassination of the US Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens, then the French intervention in Northern Mali and the spectacular attack by a branch of the Al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on the In Amenas oil terminals in 2013 — with calamitous crisis management by the Algerian authorities — have proven the zone's fragilitIn particular, the 2012 assassination of the US Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens, then the French intervention in Northern Mali and the spectacular attack by a branch of the Al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on the In Amenas oil terminals in 2013 — with calamitous crisis management by the Algerian authorities — have proven the zone's fragilitin Northern Mali and the spectacular attack by a branch of the Al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on the In Amenas oil terminals in 2013 — with calamitous crisis management by the Algerian authorities — have proven the zone's fragilitin the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on the In Amenas oil terminals in 2013 — with calamitous crisis management by the Algerian authorities — have proven the zone's fragilitIn Amenas oil terminals in 2013 — with calamitous crisis management by the Algerian authorities — have proven the zone's fragilitin 2013 — with calamitous crisis management by the Algerian authorities — have proven the zone's fragility.

«Let's be blunt — for years and years, no one in authority dealt with the crisis on Rikers Island, and in the past three years we have taken it on squarely, we never shook from it,» de Blasio said.

The Minister for Women and Equality (Ms Harriet Harman): This financial year — in addition to local authority funding and # 1.25 million from the victims fund — the Government have paid out # 900,000 from a # 1.1 million special fund for rape crisis centres.

Mr Kwaku Wiafe, Manager Volta River Authority, said installed generation capacity had increased significantly in recent years in response to the energy crisis, resulting in a reserve margin of about 95 percent by year - end 2017.

ERIE COUNTY, NY - This past week Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke (7th District) introduced a resolution to reduce the size of the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority, an entity formed in 2005 as a response to the «Red - Green» budget crisis.

The deal does not include any money for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — which is grappling with a service crisis driven by years of deferred maintenance — or authorize additional areas in the city where speed enforcement cameras can be used.

The Executive Chairman of CACOL, Mr Debo Adeniran, while responding to the strike said, «We had found it pertinent and expedient to call the attention of the authorities to the issues at the background of the industrial crisis and its impact on the recent Executive order on «Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria» signed by the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo,»

President Mahama sought to dispel the NPP's notions saying, «I can tell you on authority as President of the Republic and Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces that this country is not in crisis and this country is not going backwards.

Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, highlighted the critical role the Volta River Authority (VRA) played in the 2015 agreement with AMERI, for the provision of a 250 MW power plant in the heat of the country's power crisis, when he appeared before Parliament's Mines and Energy Committee on Friday.

Looking ahead to next month's potential cash - flow crisis, Megna said Paterson will send up a separate bill asking for the statutory authority to push some of the payments due to school districts by June 1 to later in the month, allowing the state to draw more heavily on its pool of short - term emergency funds.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, MARK C. POLONCARZ, Erie County Executive, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Erie County's Charter Sections 301 and 302, do hereby declare a public health crisis related to the opioid epidemic exists in Erie County and do hereby order as follows:

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled today his administration's long - awaited «NextGeneration NYCHA» plan, designed to address what he called the «worst financial crisis» in the New York City Housing Authority «s eight - decade history — and simultaneously construct 10,000 new low - cost apartments that will count toward his ambitious affordable housing agenda.

Series of news reports gathered by Citi News in the last week shows that there is a worsening sanitation crisis in the capital with city authorities struggling to deal with the situation.

But U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert ruled that, «in declaring a fiscal crisis and imposing the wage freeze, NIFA did not create a «new rule,» but merely exercised authority delegated to it by the [county] legislature in 2000.

We are enormously appreciative of the commitment of the mayor, schools chancellor and School Construction Authority to ending this decades - long overcrowding crisis in this part of Queens.»

The embattled head of New York City's Housing Authority, the nation's largest system of public housing stock, is resigning amid increasing public scrutiny of her tenure and twin crises over lead paint and a lack of heat in city - run apartments.

ANDREW LANSLEY: Yes, I think he was right because the authority of parliament frankly has been brought in to crisis point and that authority needs to be re-established not just in relation to the Speaker, but in so many other ways, which is why tomorrow for example, the scrutiny panel that David Cameron has established, that is going to be looking not only at making sure that everything we do is transparent and reasonable in the future on clear, unambiguous rules, but we are going to look back, as indeed we've done in the Shadow Cabinet and said, it's not about whether we were within the rules, it's not about whether it was legitimate, it's actually about whether we have done something which is unreasonable, which the public would not regard as acceptable and that, that test, that tougher test is one we've applied to ourselves and we will apply throughout the Conservative Parliamentary Party.

Such designs are at the heart of the NYCHA head's NextGeneration plan, which Mayor Bill de Blasio commissioned to deal with what he called «the worst financial crisis» in the authority's 81 - year history, and to take the entity from hundred million dollar deficits to equally large surpluses.